Shell – Remove touchpad two-finger right-click

After the latest updates (I assume to gnome-shell), my touchpad right-click switched from "pressing bottom right zone" to "two-finger tap anywhere".

I find this confusing and I want to restore my right-clicks to pressing the bottom-right part of the touchpad.

What I tried so far:

Settings -> Mouse & touchpad but no luck
Middle click with two-finger tap on touchpad but I didn't have synclient installed. After installing, I get: Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?

Any ideas?

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I came across https://askubuntu.com/questions/999631/ubuntu-17-10-disable-touchpad-bottom-right-corner-right-click

That pointed me in the right direction.

Running

gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad

lists all touchpad settings. I'm only interested in

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method

which at the moment returns fingers.

Now I just needed to know what are the valid options I can set this key to. After some digging, I found range

gsettings range org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method

which returns

enum
'default'
'none'
'areas'
'fingers'

Finally, running this solved it:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method areas

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